Romans 11:10
Let their eyes be obscured, so that they may not see, and so that they may bow down their backs always.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 65:12I will number you with the sword, and you will all fall by slaughter. For I called and you did not respond; I spoke, and you did not listen. And you did what is evil in my eyes; and what I did not will, you have chosen.
Romans 1:21For although they had known God, they did not glorify God, nor give thanks. Instead, they became weakened in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was obscured.
Ephesians 4:18having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts.
2 Peter 2:17These ones are like fountains without water, and like clouds stirred up by whirlwinds. For them, the mist of darkness is reserved.
Jude 1:13raging waves of the sea, foaming from their own confusion; wandering stars, for whom the whirlwind of darkness has been reserved forever!
Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33
The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →